paper weaving

ALL spring classes at beehive tried their hands at paper weaving. 
It's tricky, but once you get the hang of it...  oooooo la la!  
A beautiful collection of color and focus. 
YAY beehive kids! 

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day!

glimpses from beehive dad's workshop 6/12

PASTE PAINT PAPERS

PASTE PAINT is one of my favorite mediums.  It's all about experimenting with lots of pots of colors, color blending, lines, patterns and texture. 

Using a blender we whipped up several colors using different pigments of tempera and acrylic. We added just a smidge of pigment so that the paste paint has some transparency. If you want a more opaque look, add more pigment.
There are many recipes out there for paste paint, the one we used I found here.  

In a previous class, each child had painted several sheets of paper with tempera, 

for the background color. 

Add a small dollop of paste paint to painted paper and brush evenly. We dragged plastic combs across the surface to create color patterns and cool line formations. 

Make sure everyone has several sheets of papers to experiment with,

it's THAT much fun! 

fleur girl

    

               je t'aime

                                                            


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f is for frames

                    multi-layered collage
                               on cardboard 
                           with a sweet pic 
                                         on top!

every day

happy mother's day

inspiration

found here

still-life with tulips

My sweet friend brought beautiful tulips

 to the studio last weekend.

I happily brought them home... 

only to bring them right back as they were 

perfect for painting this rainy day. 

prezzies for mom

pretty prezzies for moms,

paper flowers to come. 

cool+colorful+fun

                                                       
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BEEHIVE bags

Beehive canvas bags

 in the works at 

Lincoln Rec. Dept.  

photo challenge

My sister, my dad and I 

just completed this photo challenge.  

It was a fun way to get thru this past month 

of desperately wanting a change

 in season and in our lives. 

  The three of us appreciate photography 

  and each of us has a keen, clever eye. 

We're going to share our 30 photographs this weekend, 

I cannot wait to see what those two have been up to. 

challenge from here

just funny

this is what happens when you have fun taking pictures of funny kids. 

the funny kids find your camera and want to take lots of funny pictures too. 

beehive butterflies

We made butterflies beehive style..

big sharpie outline, oil pastel, and watercolor. 

The challenge was to draw the back of the butterfly similar to the front. 

We stuffed them, added colorful streamers and off they flew!